“The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.”

“Indian summer is like a woman.”

“I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.”

“If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.”

“She saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death.”

“There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.”

“What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone.”